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| Title: | | Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups?Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups?The Case of Israel  |
| Authors: | | Neuman, Shoshana Ziderman, Adrian |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 348 |
| Abstract: | | There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good match between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin, Israeli Arabs and females. The results are mixed, differing from group to group, thus justifying our approach of examining the impact of vocational schooling on finer breakdowns of the population of secondary school completers. |
| Subjects: | | Wage differentials human capital gender ethnicity immigration Arabs vocational education. |
| JEL: | | J24 J21 J61 J16 J44 J15 J31 I21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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